Video: Twins Payroll and 2024 Expectations

[Tom Froemming]

After the Minnesota Twins finally broke their embarrassing playoff losing streak, you'd figure the fanbase would be flying high. Instead, early offseason reports of the team planning on decreasing payroll have killed the vibe. I shared my thoughts both on the payroll situation and on fan morale/excitement heading into 2024.

View full video

[Whitey333]

Always love your videos.  Well done in your research.  These projections by streamer are so ridiculous much like the new wave emphasis on analytics versus common sense baseball.  Should be a combination of both.  Payroll may not be about total dollars but how they are allocated.  The fact that payroll is being reduced is not surprising.  To me it is the terrible planning with regard to payroll management.  It wasn't smart then and even less so now to sign Correa and Buxton to 200 and 100 million dollar long term deals.  So now you will have approximately 50 million per year in only 2 players.  That is poor planning.  The bankruptcy of Diamond Sports has been a distinct possibility for two years.  Very poor planning.  To me the teams with smaller payrolls that win is due to their expertise in signing and drafting and trading for the right players.  I don't concede the division to the Twins.  The Twins play boring baseball in a boring division.  I actually hope the Royals or Tigers get better so as to perhaps make the Twins play even better.  I'm not sold on this FO.  But I haven't given up on them either.  I'm hoping we do even better in 2024.  It sounds like we will if we let the spreadsheets play the games.  Go Twins!